The institution of Law may it one day be relieved from stupidity!

OK I know it's shocking I am finely posting something. This forward a friend sent me to day just pisses me off - no I haven't taken the time to verify all the info but it really doesn't surprise me.

Maybe if our case was not so legitimate we could also be awarded mammoth amounts of money for our pain suffering and losses - I m pretty sure our losses and pain and suffering over the last two years have been more severe then the ridiculous cases below.

HUM..... We wonder WHY The current powers that be want to stop frivolous law suits? But hey with my luck our real case would be viewed much the same way by the current corporate "political powers that be" in office!!!! Ohhhh..... to spare the poor little insurance companies from ruin while their clients fight for survival, face homelessness and financial despair- can you feel the love?

@&%$#%&#%&^%$!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sigh.....

I feel much better now ;)

INSANE is too little a word to describe these law suits!

"The Stella Awards"
It's time once again to review the winners of the Annual "Stella Awards."
The Stella Awards are named after 81 year-old Stella Liebeck,who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued McDonald's (in NM).
That case inspired the Stella awards for the most frivolous,
ridiculous, successful lawsuits in the United States.

Here are this year's winners:

5th Place (3-way tie): Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas,
was awarded $80,000 by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle,
tripping over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store...
The owners of the store were understandably surprised at the verdict,considering the misbehaving little toddler was Ms. Robertson's son.
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5th Place (3-way tie): 19-year-old Carl Truman of Los Angeles
won $74,000 and medical expenses when his neighbor
ran over his hand with a Honda Accord...
Mr. Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone at thewheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor's hubcaps.~~~~~~~~~~
5th Place (3-way tie): Terrence Dickson of Bristol, Pennsylvania,
was leaving a house he had just finished robbing by way of the garage...
He was not able to get the garage door to go up,
since the automatic door opener was malfunctioning...
He couldn't re-enter the house, because the door connecting the house
and garage locked when he pulled it shut... The family was on vacation,
and Mr. Dickson found himself locked in the garage for eight days.
He subsisted on a case of Pepsi he found, and a large bag of dry dog food.
He sued the homeowner's insurance claiming the situation caused him undue mental anguish.
The jury agreed to the tune of $500,000.
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4th Place: Jerry Williams of Little Rock, Arkansas, was awarded
$14,500 and medical expenses after being bitten on the buttocks
by his next door neighbor's beagle...
The beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced yard.
The award was less than sought, because the jury felt
the dog might have been just a little provoked at the time,
by Mr. Williams who had climbed over the fence into the yard
and was shooting it repeatedly with a pellet gun.
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3rd Place: A Philadelphia restaurant was ordered to pay Amber Carson
of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, $113,500 after she slipped on a soft drink
and broke her coccyx (tailbone)...
The beverage was on the floor because Ms. Carson had thrown it
at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument.
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2nd Place: Kara Walton of Claymont, Delaware,
successfully sued the owner of a night club in a neighboring city
when she fell from the bathroom window to the floor,
and knocked out her two front teeth...This occurred while Ms.Walton was trying to sneak through the windowin the ladies room to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge...
She was awarded $12,000 and dental expenses.
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AND LAST, BUT NOT LEAST...

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1st Place: This year's run away winner was Mrs. Merv Grazinski
of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma...
Mrs. Grazinski purchased a brand new 32-foot Winnebago motor home...
On her first trip home, (from an OU football game),
having driven onto the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph
and calmly left the drivers seat to go into the back & make herself a sandwich...
Not surprisingly, the RV left the freeway, crashed and overturned.Mrs.Grazinski sued Winnebago for not advising her
in the owner's manual that she couldn't actually do this...
The jury awarded her $1,750,000 plus a new motor home!

The company actually changed their manuals on the basis of this suit,
just in case there were any other complete morons around!~~~~~~~~~~
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